Bobbitt on ‘the incident’

Lorena Bobbitt is matter-of-fact when discussing the “incident” that made her and her husband 1990s tabloid sensations, said Amy Chozick in The New York Times. On the night she alleges that her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, raped her, Lorena used a kitchen knife to cut off his penis in his sleep and then threw it out her car window 15 minutes later. Why did she chuck it? “I tried to drive the car, obviously, but I had this thing in my hand, so I got rid of it,” says Lorena, 49, who now goes by the surname Gallo. “I’m not a vindictive person because I told [the police] where it was.” Police put the organ on ice in a hot dog box from 7-Eleven, and it was reattached in a nine-and-a-half-hour surgery. After both were acquitted—she, based on “temporary insanity”—her ex-husband went on to star in porn films. Lorena, meanwhile, thinks half the story got ignored—her testimony that her ex repeatedly forced sex on her. “They always just focused on it …,” she says. “it’s like they all missed or didn’t care why I did what I did. Why would they laugh about my suffering?” She’s proud to continue residing in Manassas, Virginia. “I live here. This is my home. Why should he have the last laugh?”